Lot Essay
Three drawings from the same album were exhibited at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, Tiepolo and his Circle, 1997, nos. 81-3.
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Caricature of a man wearing an overcoat
Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
Caricature of a man wearing an overcoat
pen and black ink, grey wash
8¼ x 5½ in. (210 x 140 mm.)
Caricature of a man wearing an overcoat
pen and black ink, grey wash
8¼ x 5½ in. (210 x 140 mm.)
Provenance
Possibly Count Bernardino Algarotti Corniani.
Possibly Marquess of Breadalbane, Langton House, Duns, Berwickshire; Dowells, Edinburgh, 25 March 1925, part of lot 1004.
John Grant.
Arthur Kay; Christie's London, 9 April 1943, part of lot 247 (140 gns. to Koetzer).
Duc de Talleyrand.
Possibly Marquess of Breadalbane, Langton House, Duns, Berwickshire; Dowells, Edinburgh, 25 March 1925, part of lot 1004.
John Grant.
Arthur Kay; Christie's London, 9 April 1943, part of lot 247 (140 gns. to Koetzer).
Duc de Talleyrand.
Literature
A. Morassi, Dessins vénitiens du dix-huitième siècle de la collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan, 1958, no. 34, illustrated.